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Saylor

Gender
Girl
Say it
SAY-lor
Origin
English
UK rank, 2025
#1,868 for girls
US rank, 2025
#217 for girls

Saylor is a girls' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,868th for girls in the UK (16 babies) and 217th for girls in the US (1,415 babies).

What does Saylor mean?

English: surname; also a respelling of sailor

A modern name that sounds like sailor; it also exists as an English surname of uncertain origin.

More on Wiktionary.

Is Saylor a girl's or a boy's name?

Saylor is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the UK and 1,415 girls and 57 boys in the US.

How popular is Saylor in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#1,868among girls
Babies in 2025
16about 1 in 17,000 girls
Five-year trend
Risingup 45% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were named Saylor, making it the 1,868th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,587th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 26 girls.

2025 had fewer girls named Saylor than any year since 2019.

Half of all the girls named Saylor in the UK since 1996 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 22 girls in the UK were given Saylor or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,274, up from #1,868 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 2,137th in England and Wales and 780th in Scotland.

2016Busiest: 26 in 20232025
Saylor in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202516#1,868
202426#1,321
202326#1,322
202219#1,667
202121#1,553
202020#1,587
201912#2,275
201815#2,000
20177#3,395
20167#3,389

How popular is Saylor in the US?

Rank in 2025
#217among girls
Babies in 2025
1,415about 1 in 1,100 girls
Five-year trend
Risingup 39% in five years
Same name in a class
1.2%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 1,415 girls in the US were named Saylor, making it the 217th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 304th. It first appears in the records in 1992. 57 boys were also named Saylor in 2025 (2,390th for boys).

2025 had the most girls named Saylor of any year since it first appeared, in 1992.

Half of all the girls named Saylor in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,669 girls in the US were given Saylor or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #220.

Girls were 69% of the babies named Saylor in the US in 1998, and 96% in 2025.

1992Busiest: 1,415 in 20252025
Saylor in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20251,415#217
20241,341#231
20231,398#214
20221,410#207
20211,193#258
20201,070#304
20191,053#308
2018868#364
2017741#429
2016729#441
2015480#608
2014351#800
2013283#902
2012222#1,119
2011204#1,182
2010181#1,299
2009194#1,258
2008182#1,345
2007143#1,579
2006137#1,574
2005158#1,367
2004129#1,541
2003112#1,701
200295#1,864
2001127#1,475
200096#1,797
199996#1,705
199822#4,793
19977#10,831
199611#7,569
19959#8,761
19949#8,798
199311#7,491
19925#13,308

Names like Saylor

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Harper Willow Safa Scarlett Ember Summer Ivy River Mila Freya Poppy Isla

Other spellings of Saylor

Sailor Sayler

More English names

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Every English name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Saylor: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saylor, updated 20 October 2026.